Monstertree sketchbook : Digital ash in a digital urn

**monstertree** · November 23rd, 2007, 08:05 AM

Reject-D - Cheers mate, I'm glad you like it.

Ikuru - Thanks for stopping by again man

Euthyphro - Thanks, yeah I think I learned something from them - at least I hope I did!

Taeyoungchoi - Please do come back!

Flutic - Thanks, for some reason I'm always attracted to the more saturated path for my work.

Quick one from today. Note to self, NEVER brew green tea so so long and drink such copious amounts of it at once. I got all Jeckylled up, feeling sick and juddering about like some sort of wreck! Drawing this took my mind off feeling sick, but my hands are still buzzing!

**JELF** · November 23rd, 2007, 09:39 AM

Dude Ur awesome with all that lively colour!!
i've only just started to show me work and it's scary cuz everyone here is so good!!! Keep it up its insipiring!!!

if u have some time please check out me sketchbook!
thanks anyway

**Rune Rask** · November 23rd, 2007, 10:37 AM

talk about improving! page 1 through 6 are an amazing story... really nice works.. and nice progress and overall handling of ideas.

enviuos.. hehe

Rune

**monstertree** · November 28th, 2007, 06:08 PM

JELF - Thanks

Don't be scared of posting your work here, what's the worst that can happen? Put a link to your SB in your signature and I'll be happy to visit.

Rune Rask - Cheers, I really appreciate it!

Well I've been working on stuff that I can't show - but here's some stuff before bed. Not really trying for anything, mainly throwing excess energy into something visual to unwind.

**monstertree** · December 3rd, 2007, 10:28 AM

My first entry for the stylised animal challenge - Ichthyosaur!

**monstertree** · December 7th, 2007, 12:01 PM

Been busy making stuff for Christmas, but here's a dump of speed stuff.

**monstertree** · December 11th, 2007, 02:09 PM

Fun times...

**monstertree** · December 13th, 2007, 05:36 PM

Another doodle, gonna go back to 2d after this I think -too much 3d lately

**monstertree** · December 14th, 2007, 12:49 PM

Wow, 7th post in a row without anyone saying anything...how embarassing. Oh well, I'll plod on and hope people are looking. Here's a card for someone who's really into making felt mascots

Hope you enjoy!

**ikuru** · December 14th, 2007, 08:18 PM

I know that feeling, that last one with the frogs is kick ass!
So what does it say?
Do you speak cantonese or whatever that is?

keep it up, I for one am watching in silence.

**themissinglink** · December 14th, 2007, 11:11 PM

great sketchbook, dont worry about the replies, I go long stretches without comments too. keep up the good work

**Sunwise** · December 15th, 2007, 04:20 PM

Lots of fun stuff going on here. I'm guilty of having been lurking, I sorta forgot to actually comment outside of my mind, after looking at things as you posted them.
Digging most of your speed stuff, and the Abe renders are nice. Did you do those and the other 3d creature with Zbrush, or something else, just out of curiosity?
The frogs are fun, too. I can remember enough kana to read the text, I think. Omedetou gozaimasu, yeah? No way I can read the kanji at the top, haha, bu t nice happy newyear frogs.

**monstertree** · December 22nd, 2007, 04:46 PM

Ikuru - Cheers for breaking my drought! hehe Glad you like the frogs, luckily it went down a treat! It says 'Tanjoubi omedetou gozaimasu' meaning happy birthday, I'm only a beginner in Japanese

themissinglink - Thanks! I'm glad you like my stuff.

Sunwise - Yeah it's a zbrush sculpt rendered in external software. You're close with the kana, the kanji is the vital part of the sentence though to change it from congratulations to happy birthday (I can't read kanji either, I had to use a dictionary for that part heh)

Had a weird dream last night and really wanted to paint it out so that I could forget the imagery, so here he is. In the dream he was more freaky because he was whispering something

Was also gonna post a photo of a plushie I made of that hedgehog a few posts back but my batteries died so that'll have to wait for now.
Have a good Christmas everyone!

**Glory666** · December 22nd, 2007, 05:18 PM

awww man, i wish i had cool freaky dreams!

love your sketchbook and latest drawing!

**ikuru** · December 22nd, 2007, 05:19 PM

Id be damned! thats the exact same fox I been seeing in My dreams!

No just kidding man, but it looks nice. good job on that.

It might look cool with more work on the shadow/selfshadow.. I know its tough since the snow is also reflecting light and that.

but it looks good and might be worth the extra work.

some snow fox, sun light ref..

cheers
/D

**monstertree** · December 23rd, 2007, 07:32 AM

Glory666 - Thanks!

Ikuru - Hah, that'd be so freaky if it was! Thats a good crit, I got a little lost with the lighting as I changed things as I went along - so my initial value painting wasn't accurate anymore. Pretty sure I'll go back and put some more love into it soon, but I'm too close to it at the moment so I'm gonna give it a little while.

Speed paint from this morning, must have been thinking about final fantasy subconciously. And the plush toy (my first, and probably last) of that hedgehog a few back...man I hate sewing!

**Miles_** · December 23rd, 2007, 04:06 PM

Wow loving that fox.
Man I can't beleive you live in Fleet. Keep this stuff up Im loving this style of painting, its good to see you experiment.

**monstertree** · January 8th, 2008, 11:53 AM

Spazazo - Yeah, weird eh? I'm kinda fond of that fox too

Fallen out of drawing and going online lately (the latter probably being a good thing) because of Christmas and New year.Getting back in the swing of things slowly. Here's a speed painting of a daruma I got for Christmas, doing a little something for Russell Brand and a very quick (and hung over) sketch of my friends on New Years day morning.
Nothing, special I know, I need my arse kicked to get a move on

**iceman478** · January 8th, 2008, 12:01 PM

cool stuff ......i love the borat

**V.I.N** · January 8th, 2008, 01:17 PM

amazing stuff dude, little bit funny and mystical, especially the fox.
your plush toy: for first try not bad (my opininon) looks nice. check out chealseaslaters sb...
keep on posting boy...

**Peter Berkovski** · January 8th, 2008, 03:00 PM

Hey buddy I dig your last stuffs man, great update so far, that makes me laugh - http://www.conceptart.org/forums/att...1&d=1197400143 it is so funny and brings me almost forgotten memories - abe's addysee

keep em coming mate !
*I wrote you pm,please answer me

**monstertree** · January 9th, 2008, 11:21 AM

iceman478 - Thanks
V.I.N - Yeah I think I've seen them before, they are way better than mine for sure

atlantik - Heh, yeah I loved that game as a kid.

Was thinking of entering the CHow this week.Started painting today - problem is this looks awful zoomed out. I guess if something doesn't work zoomed out then it isn't sucessful as an illustration, so I'll be going back to the drawing board. Here's what came out though.

**monstertree** · January 11th, 2008, 12:28 PM

Warmup for an illustration I have coming up, trying out different workflows. Acrylic on mountboard, brush pen and digital - about 1 hour.

**lalovergel** · January 11th, 2008, 01:58 PM

really nice work, I surely can learn some from it.

**monstertree** · January 15th, 2008, 05:43 PM

lalovergel - Thanks, I appreciate it.

Working on something in oils at the moment, so not much to show apart from this speedy dvd screencap

**Camara** · January 16th, 2008, 06:12 AM

Fantastic work,man,I love your colors!The one of the fox is amazing!!!So creepy....!

**monstertree** · January 20th, 2008, 03:15 PM

Camara - Cheers mate

I was messing about in my moleskine today, here's what popped out. Must learn to use my camera properly to show some of the larger traditional stuff I've been working on!
*edit* Does the attachment manager not show images anymore? Makes me less inclined to use it!

**Sketch** · January 20th, 2008, 04:37 PM

Teen Wolf! Fuck yah! Great stuff lately! Lovin the fox creature, cool idea.

**monstertree** · February 9th, 2008, 05:06 PM

Sketch - Hahahah yeah! I'm a proper child of the 80's 8)

Been gone a while, but now i'm back for good! Starting off slow with a speedpaint before bed - went to an aquarium recently and was thinking of it while doodling